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Friday, 27 January 2017

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Trump has come out, as he said he would, firmly on the
side of limiting future muslim influence in America. "We don't want to
become a Muslim country" he said. With muslim birth rates outpacing that
of Americans of northern European origin by six to one, his embargo on
immigration from certain ‘troubled’ regions is entirely sensible, pragmatic and
predictably has riled the left who, for reasons unknown, simply will not
criticise even those whose avowed aim is to obliterate all other forms of
thought. Maybe they see a kindred spirit.

But, but, but, we need immigration the globalist cry, as
if the Ponzi model that has been operating for decades is any kind of answer.
We need to take the young of poorer countries to prop up the outrageously
generous pension entitlements of the baby boomers. Has anybody, in any
government seriously examined this claim? The relatively wealthy pay the bulk
of the taxes, which governments, always desperate to keep the plebs onside,
spend on welfare programmes of such indiscriminate profligacy that they need to
borrow eye-watering sums to make up the gaps.

Why? Because the flood of low-paid workers contributes nothing
at all; in the UK we even pay them tax credits – calling them in-work benefits instead of the
dole it is – so that they can get by. And then we moan about our low
productivity while tweaking the statistics to ‘prove’ they are essential. This
need to constantly expand the population, storing up even greater unmeetable
costs and dissatisfaction ahead, is simply ludicrous. It is like putting people
on disability benefits or keeping them at school just to make the unemployment
figures look better. If anything we should be lowering the population, starting
with a reduction in numbers of those who, by design, contribute nothing.

But until we get that contented, manageable population in
lucrative jobs, owning their own homes and happy to rub along together we have
to make do with what we’ve got. Donald Trump, of course, has a long history of
finding people he can work with in order to fulfil his ambitions and right now
he is filling positions to bring about the changes he wants to see. To which
end he has devised the simplest of job interview tests for choosing the right
man. Even as Theresa May was jetting over to the States to meet him, he was
meeting eager applicants to run his new infrastructure projects, with budgets
of $Trillions.

He asked the first applicant, an ex-journalist, “What is
two plus two?” whose answer, somewhat predictably, was an innumerate twenty-two. The next
applicant was a social worker and she said “I don't know the answer but I'm
very glad that we had the opportunity to discuss it." The third applicant
was an engineer of some years; he looked like he could have worked on the
Hoover Dam. This man pulled out a similarly ancient wooden slide rule and came up with the answer “Somewhere
between 3.999 and 4.001.” The next was a lawyer who declared “In the case of
Jenkins vs. the Department of the Treasury, two plus two was proven, unequivocally, to be four.”

The Donald deploys his secret army of accountants...

The President sighed, this was proving fruitless and he
only had one more applicant waiting in the ante room. This had better be the
man for the job; he needed somebody he could work with. A former accountant for PWC the man walked nervously into the
Oval Office, his gangly frame and horn-rimmed glasses straight from central
casting. Donald looked him in the eye and asked “What is two plus two?” The
accountant got up from his chair, walked to the door, closed it, came back and
sat down. Leaning across the desk, he said in a low whisper, “How much do you
want it to be?”